An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Throughconflict we get to unity.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The property of power is to protect.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.