Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

The very essence of leadership is you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Confidence is the bond of friendship.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.

Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

take a hike (go away).

Studious of elegance and ease.

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?