We arethe prisoners of ideas.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

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

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.