Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.