A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.