A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,