I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

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.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

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

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Use softwords and hard arguments.