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.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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

Thereare two sides to every question.

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.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.