Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

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.