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

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.