A quiettongue shows a wise head.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.