Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.