Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.