Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it