If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.