Outside noisy, inside empty.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

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.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.