Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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.

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

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.