By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.