Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.