Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.