It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.