A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Discord gives a relish to concord.