Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Neversay more than is necessary.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.