Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.