Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen