A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,