People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

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.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.