Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

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.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.