A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

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

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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