Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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

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

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.