Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.