Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

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

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.