When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

As long as there is life there is danger.