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

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.