You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

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

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.