A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway