Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.