A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

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

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.