Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.