If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.