The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.