Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.