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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

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

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.