The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.