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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.