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.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.