Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.