Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.