Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.