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.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

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.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.