Buying ischeaper than asking.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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.

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