Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Genius is a long impatience.

Renown and repose do not go together.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people