Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.