At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.