The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

When weblame, we give away our power.

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

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.