Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

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

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to