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.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.