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

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.