A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

The present is never a happy state to any being

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.