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

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

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...

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.