There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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

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

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.