Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

... 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

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.