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.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Compromise.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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.