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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

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