Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

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

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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

Throughconflict we get to unity.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.