Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.