All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.