When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

The property of power is to protect.

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.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.