A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.