A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.