The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Malice drinketh its own poison.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.