Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

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

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.