It is a good reader that makes a good book.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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