Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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