Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They