Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They