A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.