Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.