Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Liberation is not deliverance.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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.