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

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.