Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.