Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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