Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

No strength within, no respect without.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.