Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.