I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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 wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.