Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Those who trust us educate us.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

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

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.