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.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.