As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

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.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.