Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

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.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

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.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.