Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.