Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.