When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Onemust talk little and listen much.