Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

... 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

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.