Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.