Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

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.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

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

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.