If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The greatest prayer is patience.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.