The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.