A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.