Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

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

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.