Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing: