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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

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.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends