Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

When weblame, we give away our power.