Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

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.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.