It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

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

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.