Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen