Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

People say law but they mean wealth.

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