Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.