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

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.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.