It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

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.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.