The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.