Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.