A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.