Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.