Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

When weblame, we give away our power.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying 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.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.