The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.