I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.