Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

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

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

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.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.