A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

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.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.