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.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…