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

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

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.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.