In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Those who trust us educate us.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,