The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.