Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

To teach isto learn twice.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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.