It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.