Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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

Modesty is the clothing of talent.