Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

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

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.