Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.