Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Compromise.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.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

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.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.