It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.