A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

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.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.