If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.