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.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

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

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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