Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.