I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.