Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

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

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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

Men are cruel, but man is kind.