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

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

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.

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 great harmony.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.