Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

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.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him