Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.