Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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