If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out