Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.