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 remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

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.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.