Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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

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.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.