You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

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.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much