The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.