Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

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.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.