Inspiration comes of working every day.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

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

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

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

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history