A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.