A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.