Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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