Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.