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

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.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

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

Patience is the art of hoping.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.