True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

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

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