Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

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.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.