Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

When you are feeling stressed and about to breakdown, just remember: STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards.. it's a piece of cake!

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Our errors are steps on the way.