Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.