It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.