Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

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.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.