Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea