A gem is not

A gem is not
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.
  

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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
Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
The hardeststep is over the threshold.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.
Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.
The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.
What is well done is done soon enough.
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.