Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.