It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

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.

Silenceis the mother of truth.