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

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.