Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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