Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.