True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.