Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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,

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.