Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Liberation is not deliverance.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.