Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.