We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

Management is the art of getting things done through people.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly’s wings assures me of a pure, innocent world

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.

Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.