Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.