Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.