Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

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 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

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Use softwords and hard arguments.