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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.