The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

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