Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

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.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.