The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

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

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.