A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.