Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

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.