The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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.