When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

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

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Onemust talk little and listen much.