Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.