When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Inspiration comes of working every day.