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.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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.