Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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

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.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares