Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

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.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.