Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.