Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Example is better than following it.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

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.