Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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