Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

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.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.