Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to