The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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 man without patience is a lamp without oil.