Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.