To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.