Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

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

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.