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

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They