Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.