Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

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.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.