Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.