Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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