I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Step after step the ladder is ascended