Renown and repose do not go together.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.