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.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.