The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.