We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

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.