Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

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 good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.