I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Stability is not immobility

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.