Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to