Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

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.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.