If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.