We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.