Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Stability is not immobility

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Ittakes time to save time.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.