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.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.