You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

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.