Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

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.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.