Adversity introduces a man to himself.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Nostrength within, no respect without.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers