We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

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

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.