The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.