Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .