The master leadsby emptying people's minds and filling their cores$$$ by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve.

Cultural icons help people define who they are today because they shaped who they were as children.

Coffee makes us severe$$$ and grave and philosophical.

Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.

If there is disturbance in the camp$$$ the general's authority is weak.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree$$$ then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Wherever I go$$$ bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

Needing approval is a female cultural disease$$$ and often a sign of doing the wrong thing.

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.