You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They