A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.