When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

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

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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.