What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Well done is better than well said.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.