The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

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.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

You can't unscramble an egg.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

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.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.