Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

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

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.