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.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.