You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

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.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.