Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

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.