A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.