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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

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.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

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

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.