The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.