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

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.