Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The property of power is to protect.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.