To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

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

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.