It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.