First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

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.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.