Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.