Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.