To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Compromise.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.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.