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.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

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.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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