A language is like living skin itself.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

The comforter's head never aches.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.