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.

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.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

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.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.