When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

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.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by