Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

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

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

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.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.