Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.