The art of writing is the art of restraint.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The greatest prayer is patience.

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.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They