A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.