You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.