Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.