The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.