Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to