A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.