WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

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 soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.