Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.