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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.