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

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

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

Opportunists take now for an answer.

The comforter's head never aches.

A half truth is a whole lie.

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