A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.