It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.