The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable