It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.