The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.