Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...