To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.