If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Neversay more than is necessary.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.