Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

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.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.