Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

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