Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Nevercut what you can untie.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.