Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

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.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.