There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.