Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.