Malice drinketh its own poison.

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

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

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.

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

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.