Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

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 problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.