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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

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.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.