Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.