A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.