Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

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.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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.