It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again