Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.