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 mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

No strength within, no respect without.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Power tires only those who do not have it.