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 property of power is to protect.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

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

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.