A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

You can't unscramble an egg.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.