Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

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

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing: