Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

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

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free