If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.