Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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

Habit: the shackles of the free

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

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

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.