It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

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

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.