He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

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.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

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

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character