A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.