Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Stability is not immobility

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol