A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.