It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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

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.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.