Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.