When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.