I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

A room without books is a body without soul

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.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.