Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

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

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.