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

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

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.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.