Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to