Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Pleasant words are the food of love.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.