Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

To teach isto learn twice.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

God made time, but man made haste.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.