If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

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.

No strength within, no respect without.