To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Ittakes time to save time.