You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.