Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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.