Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

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.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

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.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.