Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Patience is the art of hoping.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.