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

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A language is like living skin itself.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.