Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Stability is not immobility

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.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.