Use softwords and hard arguments.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.