It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.