Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him