Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.