The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him