Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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.