Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

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

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.