Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.