Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The property of power is to protect.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.