Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

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.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.