The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges