It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.