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

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.