One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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.

Compromise,n. 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.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.