You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.