Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

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

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

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Thereare two sides to every question.

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