Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

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

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou