Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They