Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.