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

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

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

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.