It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.