Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.