Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

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.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.