He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.