Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.