Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

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.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.