A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Suspicion begets suspicion.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

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.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.