Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

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

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.