Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

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.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

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.