Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

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.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.