Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.