The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.