There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

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

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.