Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

... 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

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.