As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.