The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

To beprepared is half the victory.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.