Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.