He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.