It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

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

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.