Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.