Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.