Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.