Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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.