The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Renown and repose do not go together.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.