If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.