The property of power is to protect.

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.

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 most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.