In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

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.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.