Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

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

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.