Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

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.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.