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.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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 ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.