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.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Neversay more than is necessary.

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

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.