Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

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.

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.