In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

A half truth is a whole lie.

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

Our errors are steps on the way.

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it