The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.