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

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

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.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.