Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

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.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken