Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power tires only those who do not have it.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The present is never a happy state to any being

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.