Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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