Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

To be preparedis half the victory.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.