Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The property of power is to protect.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.