Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.