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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen