To beprepared is half the victory.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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

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

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.