Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it