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.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Habit: the shackles of the free

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.