Outside noisy, inside empty.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.