Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.