Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Instead of focusing on big goals,focus on small goals.Small victories always lead to large ones.Swami Vivekanand..