The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Example is better than following it.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.