Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.