If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

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.

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

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.