If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.