You made your bed, now lie in it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.