Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

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.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.