Much learning does not teach understanding.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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

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.