When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.