Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

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

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.