When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.