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

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.