Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.