Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.