A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

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.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.