Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

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

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.