When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The property of power is to protect.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.