Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.