Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.