Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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.

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

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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.