Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

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

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.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers