Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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,

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.