Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.