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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Only the educated are free.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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