Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.