Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

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

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

You made your bed, now lie in it.