Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

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

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.