Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

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

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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

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.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.