Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

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.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.