You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

What is well done is done soon enough.

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.

To beprepared is half the victory.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.