Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho