Example is better than following it.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.