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.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.