Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.