He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

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

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.