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Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

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

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.