The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

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

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