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.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.