Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

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.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.