Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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

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

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.