An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

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's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.