Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.