Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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.

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 whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.