Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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