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

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.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.