Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

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

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.