Little things console us because little things afflict us.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.