Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

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.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.