Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

A half truth is a whole lie.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.