It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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 greatharmony.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

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

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.