Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.