If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,