Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Habit: the shackles of the free

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

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.