Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

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