A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol