Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Power comes from sincere service

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !