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.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare