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

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty