Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

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

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.