The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

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.