Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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.