Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

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.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.