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

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

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

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

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.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived