Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

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

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

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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