Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

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

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.