It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.