The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

As long as there is life there is danger.

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,