Renown and repose do not go together.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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