Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.