A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Power comes from sincere service

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.