When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.