Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

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

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.