It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

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

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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

Prayer changes things by changing people.