The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

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

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.