Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.