Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!