If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Only the educated are free.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.