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

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

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