The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.