Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

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

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.