Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.