Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!