Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

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

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.