Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.