To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Liberation is not deliverance.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge