Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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.