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.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

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 strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

An expert is a man, who dosent has all the answers, but he is sure that if that he is given enough money he can find them.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.