I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

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.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned