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

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

The warexisting between the senses and reason.