The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.