Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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