When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.