Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.