Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to