The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.