Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.