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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.