Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.