Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.