Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

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

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