Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.