Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

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

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.