Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Ability is poor men's wealth

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.