Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.