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.

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

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.