The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.