It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

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.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.