I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.