The spokenword belongs

The spokenword belongs
The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.
  

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Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.
Do notfind fault, find a remedy.
Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.
A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.
Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.