Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.