The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The property of power is to protect.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.