Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Our distrust is very expensive.