Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.