A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.