Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.