No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.