You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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