Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.