Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.