Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.