Thework will teach you how to do it.

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

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

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

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.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.