Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Our distrust is very expensive.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Buying ischeaper than asking.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

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

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.