A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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