If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Well done is better than well said.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.