Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.