Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.