Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They