you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.