At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.