The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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.

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…

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.