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

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

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

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.