Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.