To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

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.

If you can't love visible people, then how can u love invisible God. - Mother teresa

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.