Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

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

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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.

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

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.