Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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,

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

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

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.