To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

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