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

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Usesoft words and hard arguments.